When the Rain Stops Falling
2008
Strawberry Hills
:
Currency Press
,
2009
Z1430823
2008
single work
drama
(taught in 8 units)
'It begins with a miracle. On a rainy day in Alice Springs in 2039 a fish falls like manna from heaven to bless the reunion of a father with his long lost son. Perhaps it's a sign that the pattern of betrayal and abandonment that began on another rainy day in London in 1959 will come to an end.
'Who'll stop the rain? Andrew Bovell's award-winning When the Rain Stops Falling is powerful storytelling in which the voices of our past echo into our future.' (Publisher's blurb)
The topic builds on students' knowledge base and encourages fluency in the analysis of performance issues across media. The topic provides an introduction to future specialist study in Second and Third Years, offering opportunities to examine a wide range of modern and post-modern texts for the stage, television and film. The topic examines critical questions of gender and identity and aims to develop analytic and critical skills and provides opportunities for practical and creative activity.
